January 19th, 2020

Low attendance

Introductions made

Appointed Positions (interest?)

  • Participation points
    • 0-1 points/month
      • 0 – nothing
      • 0.5 – average
      • 1 – exemplary
  • Kitchen Goddess – maintains/cleans kitchen
    • Talk to Casey
  • Lab Lord – maintains/cleans lab, refills printers
    • Talk to Tech Directors
  • Sysadmin – aid to Tech directors
    • Talk to Tech Directors
  • Flyboy – makes sure flyers are sent out
    • Talk to Casey
  • Hall council rep – Communicates with hall council, makes sure we have a voice there\
    • Talk to Lloyd
  • Paparazzi – takes photos at events
    • Talk to Casey
  • King of Games – Brings out/puts away games, maintain check-in/check-out system
    • Talk to Casey
    • Coordinate with Ian about check-in/check-out system if appointed
  • Social Czar (Social media chair) – maintain CCC page, facebook page/group, website (things already in place for outreach, etc)
    • Keep content up to date, post from time to time, get photos up online
    • Talk to Casey

Events!

  • First cosponsored event coming up with WiC (Women in Computing)
    • WiC does a peer mentoring program – starting up at this time with people taking 171, 172, 173
    • Asking for CIF members to come do a unix seminar
      • CIF members
  • Doing a coding challenge
    • Asking for CIF members to be judges
  • Looking for people who know anything about 3D printers/who is interested
    • Interest in a seminar on 3D printing?
      • Lots of interest
    • Can make things with the resources in Rettner and use the
  • Casual Game nights
    • Opportunity for bonding – keep if epople want to do them
  • Need to decide a place and time – discussion
  • Move them to Friday nights to allow people who can’t make saturday nights to come- Jack, support from Dan
  • Considering doing classic movies with URCG
    • Out of copyright movies, lots of genres
    • Cultural enrichment
  • Events with Tinkerspace/Rettner
    • People interested
  • Hackathon/Scratchathon/Game Jam
    • Previously did a LAN party
    • Come talk to board if interested
    • Significant interest
  • Other event suggestions (also just ask board)
    • We want to do more bonding a
    • Basket weaving tech seminar
      • Underwater

Software on the Lab Machines – what to put on?

  • Wordperfect 3.0 – vetoed
  • Gimp
  • MS word/office
  • Adobe stuff – no guarantees
  • Autodesk Inventor and other
  • Video and audio editors
    • Ian is willing to donate product keys (hit or miss)
  • Steam
  • Oculus (is here!)
  • Google chrome, mozilla firefox
  • Netscape

Will now be one competent computer!

  • Kuta
  • Other things (cough cough Steam)

Now have a new quote board!

  • Anything said in an RPG cannot be put on (for space concerns)
  • Write small

Events

  • Tech seminar Saturday 2-4 in Douglass 401
    • Basic unix seminar and crash course in C and the cycle machines
    • People who can help set up: Rory
  • 4 Interviews this Tuesday at 8pm
    • Casey sent an email out
  • Board meeting on 1/26/2020 at 8pm
  • CIFx on 1/26/2020 at 9ish
    • Isabel will do one on fractals

Dues

  • $25 due Feb 2

Participation points

  • 20 points quota – lots of ways to earn points
  • Codenames due by Feb 2

Housing points

  • If you want to live on floor next year – talk to/email Casey!

Lab accounts

  • Making new lab accounts
  • Previous identity service has been replaced
  • Talk to Jack to get a lab account and get a

Color printer is out on holiday

  • Cyan presumably somewhere vacationing in iceland
  • Printers now in the hallway in the lab
  • Will be setting up a print release

Mousepads

  • We need them!
  • Talk to Liam about this – $5 waived dues or 1 participation point
  • We reserve the right to reject “distressed” mousepads

Visit the lab!